Though I truly appreciate each one of last week's eight films, the one which spoke to me most was Fernand Leger's Ballet Mechanique. This film brought to our awareness usually mundane details of life and made them speak. The repetition of random objects in life in motion (machinery, an old woman ascending steps, a young woman smiling demurely on a swing) resounded strongly with me. It emphasized the idea if intrinsic beauty in every aspect of life. Showing such usually unconnected things (juxtaposing repitition of mechanical and organic figures, elementary shapes and complex objects, flashing between a triangle and a circle) in the manner seen here connected them to me. This film brought me to see the interconnectivity of everything existing on this planet. It turned all life around us into an elaborate, perfectly orchestrated dance.

Earth is situated in the perfect position to sustain life; if it were any closer, we would burn from the heat of the sun. If it were any farther, we would all freeze. Life exists exactly as it is for a reason, and regardless of what happens in your life, it always continues on. If you lose your job, there is always time for a job hunt the next day. If you are walking along the street and trip on a brick, you keep walking and continue on with life. Ballet Mechanique reminds us of this in the ending scenes. After we have established a sense of comfort in our viewing experience, we are suddenly thrown one from left field: "We have stolen a 5 million dollar necklace". Though we are confused to no end, all we can do is accept it and keep watching the film. Even after the confusion of the last scene, the powerful repetitive theme permeating the film remains with us. Even through absolute confusion and distress, life continues on just as it always has.